>you seem to be implying that very smart robots WOULDN'T grant us >rights, and so, in order to protect our rights, we shouldn't try to >build them too smart.

No, I wouldn't stop the development of hyper intelligent machines even if I
could, and out course I can't. I'm an oddball however and I assume that the
vast majority of humans hate the idea of making an AI smarter than humans,
it won't make a bit of difference. The momentum to produce such a thing is
huge and getting stronger, nothing can resist it.

The Scientific, Economic and Military advantages I would gain by having a
machine just a little smarter than you have are too huge to ignore. You'll
worry that I'm getting ahead, I'll worry that you're getting ahead and we'll
both worry that somebody else we've never heard of is getting ahead.
Somebody somewhere will do it and things will never be the same.